Newest Episodes
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44: Regrets? Talking Tesla Model 3
Listen nowMatt and Sean talk about whether or not the Tesla 3 still fits Matt’s needs. Also: TV and movie recommendations that include animated fare, sci-fi, funny ghosts, and a movie made for happier times.
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43: After Dark – What to Watch (or Play)!
Listen nowMatt and Sean talk about Matt’s upcoming episodes, his upcoming second channel, and television, movies, and videogames (many of them related–accidentally–to The Mandalorian) that will help you pass the time.
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42: Charged By The Minute – Talking EV Charging and Getting Weird
Listen nowMatt and Sean talk about varied ways that charging stations encourage (or discourage) speedy use, and they humbly suggest ways that positive motivation could work better. Also: ghost stories, spy thrillers, and what to do with your leaves.
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41: Our Panel of Panel Experts – Talking Solar Panels for Home
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss solar panel owners’ relationships to their power company, tax issues, and when motion detectors strand you in a bathroom stall. No, seriously.
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40: My Right Foot – Talking Porsche and Tesla Updates Gone Wrong
Listen nowMatt and Sean talk about the Porsche Taycan, why it’s not the “Tesla-killer,” what a Tesla-killer should have, and why car interfaces should not be confusing or include connection plugs near your ankle. As well as an update on Matt’s Model 3 problems.
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39: Full of Hot Air…
Listen now… Well, cold air. Matt and Sean discuss liquid air batteries (cryogenic energy storage) and Highview Power, the difficulties of using technical terminology, and what happens when you’re scared to go into your bathroom.
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38: Trigger Warnings – Talking about solar panel environmental impacts
Listen nowMatt and Sean talk about solar panels, their useful life, how some people get triggered by them, and what stands in the way of people using them. Also: what is the deal with 1970s sex scenes?
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37: What principles? Talking about Tesla Battery Day
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss the ways that Tesla’s recent announcements demonstrate a kind of thinking that breaks from the norm and how it puts them ahead—and what we sacrifice in the process. First principles thinking is the term of the day … and batteries … a
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36: Fuel Cells are Hard
Listen now…to understand. For Sean. But Matt helps him through it! We talk through a lot of questions around efficiency, why they aren’t catching on in cars compared to battery electric vehicles. Plus, an instructional blooper on how to pronounce “hydrogen produc
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35: It’s Virtually a Grid — Talking Tesla Powerwall and Home Batteries
Listen nowMatt and Sean talk about evolving approaches to renewable energy production on the local level, surprising impacts of house-based power storage like Tesla Powerwall and Sonnen Eco, and how they passed out upon seeing the Dune trailer.